United Mine Workers Plan To Dig Into Future Growth

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September 24, 1995

HUNTINGTON, W.VA. — With an eye toward the future, United Mine Workers President Richard Trumka wants his union to relive the past, when its members were known as the ''shock troops'' of American labor. The union, one of the country's oldest, provided the ideas, the money and much of the sweat that established many other unions, including the United Steelworkers, the Rubber Workers, and the Chemical Workers. At its 51st constitutional convention, which begins Monday in Miami Beach, about 800 union delegates try to refocus ''on growth and growing,'' Trumka said.